Programmatically reading the "Details" tab of an executable

Question

I wish to read the values contained within the details tab of a .exe file. At a minimum the 'Title' value under 'Description'. Can anybody advise?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 07 '15 at 18:54

You probably need this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable. Assuming that you wanna look at the windows files.

If you wanna look at linux files (which are not .exe) - you probably need this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

If you want to access this information from a batch-file, consider using sigcheck from SysInternals, for example:

> sigcheck.exe accesschk.exe
    Verified:       Signed
    Signing date:   21:15 18-1-2015
    Publisher:      Microsoft Corporation
    Description:    Reports effective permissions for securable objects
    Product:        Sysinternals AccessChk
    Prod version:   5.21
    File version:   5.21
    MachineType:    32-bit

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Programmatically reading the "Details" tab of an executable

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